Lofty US home prices persist despite interest rate hikes
Higher borrowing costs are leading to fewer US home sales, but prices are staying elevated in a holdover from the torrid peak-pandemic market. In November, existing home sales were down…
Climate-smart initiatives
It’s a bit strange to be thinking about climate smart potatoes when climate action and climate smart agriculture are the buzzwords of the day. Educating the higher authorities about the…
The poetry of science exploration
Light travels at a finite speed of 300,000km per seconds – the speed of light. Because the speed is finite, every photon in every ray of light that reaches an…
Taking advantage of RMB to develop Pakistan’s economy
As the Covid-19 is spreading quickly around the world, its effects on the world economy including that of Pakistan are profound, complex and far-reaching. In order to mitigate the adverse…
Marketing in a digital world
The idea of getting customers to subscribe to your products or services has to be one of the biggest factors a business considers when setting up a business. It is…
A new frontier
THE debate on the need for effective school policies to address child sexual abuse (CSA) has restarted. What is an effective CSA policy for schools and what should the government-regulated…
The elite of the service
Every year, the Budget is cause for much discussion throughout Pakistan; but perhaps the greatest debate is generated amongst my peers in the civil service. Rumours abound of pay or…
The myth of the ‘commoners
A recently published article in these pages on June 20, by a civil servant Khurshid Ahmed Khan Marwat, reminded me of my own experience with the bureaucracy. In 1992, as…
A cyclic relationship
Poverty is one of the biggest contributing causes of malnutrition, which is one of the most prominent problems found in Pakistan’s young. Malnutrition leads to stunted growth; costs lives, perpetuates…
Going south
It was many decades ago when word first reached business executives in faraway Tokyo, Japan, that if they were ever seriously considering putting down permanent manufacturing roots in the US,…
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